Cruz was right on 'appeasement'

Sen. Ted Cruz stood on the Senate floor over 21 hours delivering his reasons for stopping, or at least amending, the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare." Those who watched and listened would have found him to be knowledgeable, intelligent, concise and sincere in his argument. He aggressively challenged the law and the collectivist ideas of the left in America. Never did he use language to personally demonize his opponents.

The left in America, however, are well practiced in the art of personal attacks. Ms. Magda Teter, a professor of history at prestigious Wesleyan University, in her Commentary, uses words such as outrageous, ignorant and distasteful that are intended to demean the senator for his views and his reflection of history. She encourages other people "knowledgeable" of history to marginalize those they disagree with. Standard tactics of the left.

The professor was particularly outraged that Sen. Cruz suggested Great Britain had appeased Hitler prior to World War II. She states that Great Britain declared war on Germany the day after Germany invaded Poland. True. But we older, uneducated, ignorant, outrageous, distasteful people learned that appeasement was the order of the day until the invasion of Poland. Didn't Professor Teter learn that?

Ironically, Monday's Journal News' "Today in history" reminded us of the anniversary of Neville Chamberlain's return from his meeting with Hitler and his famous 1938 quote, "I believe it is peace in our times." How many students has this professor mislead?

Frank Ehlermann

New City

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